India needs a lobbying law
India should follow the US in demanding lobbying disclosure
A free nation South Sudan is more vulnerable than it was before
July 9, 2011 may be an ordinary day for the world but for South Sudan it's a red letter day as it declared independence from North Sudan through a peaceful resolution. Thus, it also became the 196th independent nation of the world, 193rd member of the UN and 54th country in the African continent. For now, people are celebrating the independence which they got after fighting for more than two decades on the streets of Jubal. However, once the people come out of their jubilation, they will find the problems facing their nation.
Watch this, Uncle Sam
The Human Rights record of America itself is not very clean
India's own Einstein
Ashwani Kumar, the Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, made a worrying revelation on June 12, 2011 in an official visit to the National Institute of Oceanography.
World's death capital
While the Chinese government is known for its adamant and inflexible attitude towards most of its decisions and policy making, for the first time, it seems that the government has shown respect for the decision made by the Supreme People’s Court of China to abolish death sentence for various crimes.
Horror of Clinical Trials
The emergence of India as a hot destination for research & development (R&D) comes on the back of a rise in clinical trials. While this may be good news in one perspective, the sad part is that our policymakers are not up to the mark in dealing with irregularities.
World's safe havens
What Saudi Arabia is to banished Muslim leaders, UK is to the other leaders of the world – that is, a safe place to stay in and carry on with their activities, political and otherwise, while they are in exile. Both the countries have championed the cause of ousted leaders and generally have provided them with safe sanctuaries to live in.
What India can't ignore!
India's active involvement in rebuilding Pakistan is imperative
Is it a new beginning?
The world seems to be flabbergasted by former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex scandal, but then the bigger issue of deciding IMF’s successor is making news.
Theory of inhumanism
In spite of a series of poverty definition standards, the Indian Government has not been able to still comprehend the difference between poverty and destitution. Recently, the Planning Commission came out with a new poverty definition; obviously, it has nothing much new!
The Communist Fiasco...
Pranab Mukherjee was quite right when he said that one single election cannot alter national politics while answering a journalist’s query, “Will the poll results of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu change national politics?â€
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
